“Are you excited to star in a Woody Allen movie?” “I guess.”
Woody Allen makes movies with the speed and precision of a short-order breakfast cook. Year after year, he churns out pancake after pancake for an undemanding diner crowd, with Café Society the 47th pancake he’s written and directed in roughly as many years. As pancakes go, it’s round and warm and tasty. It’s a pancake! What else were you expecting? Pour some syrup on it and eat up.
As a movie, though, Café Society is a little harder to rate…